Good Intentions

One of my intentions this year was to write a little blog entry every Monday, mainly to keep it regular, and also write while I remember what we have done. Well, as you can see that clearly has not happened, and now I am sitting here racking my brain trying to think what we have been up to. It doesn't get any better with age. Hubby and I can spend a happy but a little tortuous Saturday morning trying to think of the name of a certain actor. "You know the one who is married to such and such who played in such and such movie". Oh, how tedious it can get!

We were invited to the Chinese Yuan Xiao festival at our friends' house. It was very nice. We sat outside and had a lovely hot-pot which is like a Chinese version of fondue. You have a broth with lots of different fish balls and tofu swimming in it and then you get a little implement to put your meat, finely sliced and your different mushroom and fungi and other things in and cook it in the broth. It's a very enjoyable way to spend an evening. For dessert we had the famous glutinous rice balls called Yuan Xiao filled with a sort of sesame filling, very nice.

Last week-end they had a graffiti or rather street-art "Happening" in Caringbah which we went to. We should have had more tattoos and piercings to really fit in, but it was still fun. I am glad my painting takes place standing or sitting on the ground and that I don't have to climb up ladders.

Another fun thing was that a couple of weeks ago we met up with hubby's niece and her husband and their two adorable kids. We went into the city one evening and had a meal together in the hotel restaurant. We had never seen the younger of their two girls and come to think of it we had barely seen the older one either, so it was very nice to catch up. Sorry, but I can't put up pictures of the event since I have not spoken to the parents, but there were some good ones with hubby speaking baby speak.

So now we are looking forward to my nephew coming in a couple of weeks. I am sure we will have some fun outings with him. Maybe to our favourite Japanese restaurant in Sutherland?

Take care now, dear readers!